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List:       extremeprogramming
Subject:    Re[2]: [XP] KISS
From:       Doug Swartz <daswartz () prodigy ! net>
Date:       2005-06-30 1:09:51
Message-ID: 10194464354.20050629200951 () prodigy ! net
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005, 7:33:36 PM, SirGilligan wrote:

> --- In extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com, Doug Swartz 
> <daswartz@p...> wrote:
>> 
>> Wednesday, June 29, 2005, 5:39:56 PM, Ron Jeffries wrote:
>> 
>> > What if the students themselves were to rank order the solutions 
> in
>> > terms of simplicity, //as a group//? They don't get any pizza 
> until
>> > they agree. Meanwhile, you guide the discussion so that they 
> address
>> > and assess things as concretely as possible.
>> 
>> I like this a lot. Rank order forces the students to
>> exercise judgement (you are required to compare rather than
>> giving everybody else, in the class a great score because you
>> want them to like you). Requiring consensus will force the
>> very discussion of "what is simple" that can lead to learning.
>> 

> This is reminiscent of a "performance review" in industry.
> I have some strong opinions about preformance reviews and maybe they 
> are applicable to this situation.

I also thought of a stack ranking performance review when I
read Ron's suggestion. I don't personally believe in stack
ranking of people for performance review purposes. However, I
think stack ranking of software solutions in this case is a
good idea. In some ways having a consensus ranking of the
software solutions is like your Maverick performance review.


-- 

 Doug Swartz
 daswartz@prodigy.net



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